WASHINGTON, 18 November 2016 – Increasing access to basic health, nutrition, water and sanitation services, improving management and accountability in public services and expanding infrastructure are ...

IBRD Credit: US $250 million Terms: Maturity = 20 years, Grace = 7 years Project ID: P160667 Project Description: The objective of this loan is to support the efforts of the Guatemalan Government to a...

Challenge As of 2007, access to a LSE in Guatemala was an important development challenge. Nationally, only about 40 percent of students began LSE, and less than three-quarters of those reached the fi...

Region’s average growth to remain below zero in 2016 but expected to rebound in 2017Mexico, Central American and Caribbean growing above average this year and nextRegion showing signs of new and neces...

Challenges Land, one of the most important resources in Guatemala, has been historically a source of conflict and social exclusion. Tenure was often insecure due to unreliable cadastral and legal info...

Challenge Glaciers in the tropical Andes of South America are a key aspect of the region’s water cycle. Scientific observations have shown that glaciers are retreating, at a higher rate since the 1970...

Seventy years ago the eight-hour workday was standardised. The reasoning was simple, this way workers would have 8 hours to sleep, 8 hours at work and a further 8 hours of leisure time to spend as the...

Sixty years ago, average life expectancy in Latin America was 55.7 years. Today, it is nearly 75 years. Improvements in public health, coupled with increases in the quality of life and the level of eq...

Apart from being protagonists to big social and technological changes, Latin America’s youth under 30 years old share another important difference to their older counterparts: they have never experien...

Upcoming World Bank Regional Conference to discuss the challenges of enhancing transparency and accountability in Latin American and Caribbean MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, April 21, 2016 – The World Bank invi...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2016 – The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, issued the following statement after the earthquakes that struck Ecuador and Japan in recent days: “We express our sym...

European Union contributes Euro 14 million to Multi-Donor Trust Fund to facilitate access by Central American countries and the DR to insurance facility WASHINGTON, April 15, 2016 - The European Commi...

CONTEXT Gross Domestic Product (GDP) looks at only one part of economic performance—income—but says nothing about wealth and assets that underlie this income. For example, when a country exploits its ...